A passenger rescued from a light plane which crash landed near Lake Eyre in the remote South Australian outback says he feels lucky to be safe and well.

Ben Francis and pilot Darryl Koch were returning from a scenic flight over the lake when engine failure forced the sudden landing.

Mr Francis said there was no time to make a decision and they needed to ditch the plane.

Not knowing whether anyone knew we were out there was probably our biggest concern.

Ben Francis

"All it was, was getting the plane on the ground in a safe formation and to his credit, Darryl did that," he said.

"That was the biggest thing I think, the fact that we were both not injured and yeah, able-bodied."

Mr Francis said it was a slightly bumpy landing but they were both safe.

"[It was] just on a stony rise ... it was a little bit soft after the recent rains up here so it pulled up pretty quick," he said.

"We jumped out because we thought we might have had a fire and thankfully we didn't.

"Then after that we went through the process of getting the ELT [emergency locator transmitter] to work, so they could find our location and went about making ourselves comfortable basically for the night ahead."

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